A North Carolina manufacturer plans to create more than 100 jobs by becoming Maine’s first producer of a composite wood strong enough to replace concrete and steel in high-rise buildings. LignaTerra Global LLC of Charlotte…

Arkansas will ask 120 of its active sawmills to participate in a survey, which will allow it to construct year-end harvest and production reports. “The Timber Products Output Survey (TPO) helps us better understand the…

Hancock Lumber of Casco said Monday that it has acquired Mainely Trusses, a roof and floor truss manufacturer based in Fairfield. The acquisition will add a new product line to Hancock’s manufacturing portfolio, the company…

Greenpeace and other environmental groups urged a California federal court to dismiss a complaint by Resolute Forest Products, which alleges defamation and racketeering arising from an environmentalist anti-logging campaign, says Law360. U.S. District Judge Jon…

The Canadian government has suggested it might drop its major international trade case against the U.S., if it gets a softwood lumber deal. Canada has filed a wide-ranging complaint to the World Trade Organization about…

American Forest & Paper Association President and CEO Donna Harman and American Wood Council President and CEO Robert Glowinski issued the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) issuance of new guidance to reclassify…

Chinese buyers are buying more logs directly from log exporters, bypassing the U.S. sawmills. According to Gerald Storey, Storey Sawmill & Lumber Co., the log exporters are buying better quality material, and they are paying…

Article by Jessica Johnson Associate Editor When I started with Timber Processing , I was as green asthey come. Fresh from the University of Alabama’s English department, I’d never heard of a sawmill, let alone been in one….